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Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
- Education
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Maelstrom II” (1965)
- Justice
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Frost at Midnight, l. 1 (1798)In context
O lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Dejection: An Ode (1802), St. 4
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Frost at Midnight (1798)In context
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roar’d and howl’d,
Like noises in a swound!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIn context
Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- History
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky⁠—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 21In context
- Faith
The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world.
John Constable1776–1837As quoted in C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IIn context
- War & Peace
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IXIn context